County officials outlined efforts to remove deceased and ineligible voters from registration rolls as required by state law.

At Wednesday’s county commissioners’ meeting, solicitor and acting election bureau director Wil White and bureau registrar Debra Drushel discussed those efforts, detailed in a report sent to the Department of Community and Economic Development as a requirement under Act 88. The county’s report was submitted Sept. 21.

Several sources of information are used in removing deceased voters, Drushel said.

The bureau reviews the list of deaths of county residents every two weeks from the state Department of Health and obituaries to remove the deceased from voter rolls, Drushel said.

The reports from the state and the obituaries are important because they help the bureau identify county residents who died outside of the county, which occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic, she said.

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